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This governing arrangement was organized in part by Hernández, who served two terms as president of Honduras from 2014 until January 2022.
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What sets Prospera apart from traditional tax havens is that it is directly governed by a US corporation, which has been allowed to write many of its own regulations.
The organization has received $120 million in investments, including from billionaires Thiel, Sam Altman, and Marc Andreessen.
Prospera, located on the Caribbean island of Roatan, Honduras, is a for-profit city-state that seeks to put libertarian economic and regulatory theories into practice.
It is, in other words, a gated community for the global elite to park capital with little government oversight and low taxes.
Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández was pardoned by Trump earlier this week.
While it’s unclear who exactly convinced the president to issue the pardon, Hernández and his associates were heavily involved in an experimental libertarian colony in part funded by Trump donor Peter Thiel.
xAI’s facility in Tennessee has already been targeted by a “foreign national” with “Russian” ties, according to a new lawsuit obtained by Oligarch Watch.
The US government, meanwhile, has become increasingly reliant on xAI’s services.
xAI’s Colossus data facility, located in Tennessee and home to the largest AI supercomputer in the world, could be a valuable target for US adversaries due to the company’s work for the Pentagon.
The Department of War awarded xAI a contract worth up to $200 million in July.
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company, xAI, has built its sprawling data center using more than 2,000 metric tons of Chinese-made transformers, a security risk that could leave it vulnerable to espionage or sabotage.
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Through its arrangements with Tencent and Ant Group, Shift4 is pursuing a significant push into the Chinese market, underscoring that Isaacman’s company has a financial interest in maintaining a positive relationship with China.
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Shift4, a payment processing firm, recently added a pair of new strategic partners with ties to the Communist Party of China. Over the summer, Tencent and Ant Group, the two Chinese companies, invested a combined $88 million in Shift4.
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But given his business interests, Isaacman, who is the executive chairman and top shareholder of Shift4 Payments, is a curious choice to direct Trump’s space race.
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Should billionaire Jared Isaacman successfully navigate his second nomination process to lead NASA, his top policy priority would be to beat China in a race to send astronauts back to the moon.
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Musk’s significant investment in Kean, who serves on the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, appears to have already paid off for the billionaire.
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Musk’s financial backing helped the congressman secure a close reelection victory.
He now sits on the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, which has jurisdiction over satellite communications, a critical policy field for Starlink, SpaceX’s growing satellite internet subsidiary.
During the 2024 election, Elon Musk funneled $19.2 million into congressional elections using America PAC.
Almost no one benefited more from this spending than Congressman Tom Kean (R-NJ), who received $1.5 million in backing from America PAC.
Musk is the wealthiest person in the world, and made these false claims on the number one podcast in the United States. Rogan did not push back on Musk’s claims and accepted Musk’s version of reality.
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What went unmentioned, however, was the actual dispute at the heart of the shutdown: the expiration of subsidies that will dramatically increase health insurance costs for millions of Americans.
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Musk also claimed that states like California and New York would be bankrupt without federal aid and that they depend on such funding to secure votes from undocumented immigrants.
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On Friday, Elon Musk appeared on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast and falsely claimed that the government shutdown was a dispute over blue states diverting billions of dollars in fraudulent federal payments to undocumented immigrants.
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His favorite is Optimus, Tesla’s bipedal humanoid robot, which is still in early development. But despite Musk’s lofty claims, the future of Optimus remains highly uncertain.
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With the company’s auto sales lagging this year amid intensifying competition, an aging lineup of vehicles, and backlash over Musk’s right-wing politics, Musk has taken to marketing more fantastical products.
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With Tesla reporting a 37% quarterly dip in its net income last week, chief executive Elon Musk appeared focused on anything but the automaker’s vehicle sales.
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Salesforce’s enthusiasm for Trump’s deportation regime is noteworthy, given that Benioff has spent the past decade using the company to launch headline-grabbing attacks against Republican policies.
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In August, Benioff’s company approached ICE about using its artificial intelligence systems to boost the agency’s massive recruiting drive, according to a New York Times report last week.
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He has since walked back his support for a National Guard deployment following widespread backlash. But Salesforce, the largest private employer in San Francisco, has explored other ways to support — and profit from — Trump administration policies.
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In a recent interview, Benioff, the 61-year-old chief executive of software giant Salesforce and owner of Time magazine, said that he “fully supports” Trump and his plan to deploy the National Guard to San Francisco. “I think [Trump is] doing a great job,” he added.
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Once a leading liberal voice in tech, billionaire Marc Benioff has shifted his support to President Trump, following the lead of many of his peers in Silicon Valley.
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Since making the commitment, Bezos’ wealth has nearly doubled from $124 billion to $240 billion.
Meanwhile, according to publicly available data, Bezos has given away less than $5 billion since 2018.
This represents about 2% of Bezos’ current wealth.
Jeff Bezos is the fourth-wealthiest person on Earth, with a net worth of approximately $240 billion.
In 2022, Bezos said he would give away most of his wealth during his lifetime.
The process is not going well.
TikTok, which is owned by the Beijing-based developer ByteDance, will sell its U.S. operations to a consortium of American investors, including Ellison.
As part of the deal, Oracle, the database software company cofounded by Ellison, will control the app’s algorithm.
